Jose Medina

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 101, an education bill that will require every student at a public high school in the state to take an ethnic studies course. 

AB 2772 would propose a three-year pilot program formulated by Assemblymembers Jose Medina, D-Riverside, Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, and Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, which would mandate a semester- or yearlong ethnic studies course as a graduation requirement during the 2020-2023 school years.

Organized in four separate Gig Car Share cars, 13 UC Berkeley students traveled to Sacramento early Tuesday morning to continue lobbying for increased state funding for the UC system.

In a revised May budget proposal released Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown requested that $50 million be sequestered from University of California funding until recommendations from an April 25 California State Auditor’s report and other state commitments are implemented by the university.

A bill that would cap out-of-state enrollment in the UC system is one step closer to becoming a law after state lawmakers voted 10-3 Tuesday to move the bill to a committee that will evaluate its financial viability.

A bill was introduced in the state Assembly on Tuesday that would cap the percentage of nonresident undergraduate students enrolled in the University of California at 15.5 percent.

At a state Legislature joint oversight hearing Thursday, a state auditor presented updates on a 2014 report concerning sexual violence on California’s university campuses.

At a Tuesday hearing, the California State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education passed a bill that would establish a salary cap on UC employees as a condition of receiving state funding.

A law that would provide state funding for undocumented students currently ineligible for work-study opportunities under federal law was heard in the state legislature Thursday.